Zola resigns..

early odds on a new manager

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...0xvPLmYFEZpSjJM0Q&sig2=i8F20OnMaLX_F5CQFoN4VA

 

Take that lot with a pinch of salt - the only name missing is mine. Oh hang on....

Sky are even offering 10/1 on a guy who doesn't exist....

 

Di Matteo ????

Fits the bill.

 

A tad expensive I'd imagine...

 

my money is on paolo di canio, if west ham dont sack fat sam

 

Just spotted this!


http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/685467147?-276:790

 

some interesting names but please not Paolo Di Canio !

 

Exactly my thoughts

 

Well most of our players came from there, why not the manager!!! I hope we see a bit more imagination.

 

I guess there's no room for sentiment these days. GZ was a perfect fit for our family club and last year we played the most watchable football seen at the Vic for years. I'm sad he's going. I'm not convinced any replacement will see a huge improvement until we get a few leaders on the field.

 

I haven't posted here for a very long time, but felt compelled upon hearing this news. I've never felt genuinely sad following a manager's departure from WFC, but today I feel sad. Sixteen amazing months and an incredibly bright future ahead, all thrown away because of two months of poor form - it just doesn't feel right.

People will respond by saying "it's a results business", but we are a club that is laying down a foundation for the future, not one that is simply looking for instant success. A new manager will come in, and he may turn our season around - he may even get us promoted, and upon doing so will be hailed as brilliant. He will spend a further season with us in the EPL, and will then leave us for the first club that waves a big pay-packet in his face. Gianfranco would never have done that - he would only have ever left us for Chelsea, or a top European side, and understandably so.

We could have been different, we could have actually built a real legacy at our club, but it's not to be. As a lifelong Watford fan, I will unconditionally support my club through every situation imaginable, but if the next manager doesn't turn out to be successful, I hope all the naysayers, boo-boys, and short-sighted Watford fans out there have a good, long look at themselves.

 

... and boo themselves whilst they're at it.

Well said - and welcome back bbt.

 

ditto

ditto SDT

 

I felt shocked, sad and very apprehensive when GT resigned the first time and "Harry" came in - I can still remember where I was when I heard the news.

With regards today's news I am not at all surprised. I wonder how much the boo-boys materially affected Zola's decision. I suspect that being a thoroughly decent, honourable man, his failure to turn around the results for the players, himself and the genuine Watford fans would have hurt him deeply and contributed far more to him deciding to resign than any booing. I also suspect that this may well be his last venture into football management - I may be wrong but does he really need it both emotionally and financially? I doubt it.

 

http://www.sportsdirectnews.com/pre...t-brom-zola-in-baggies-frame.php#.Uq9PDnmYbcs

 

I had a niggling little concern that he'd been approached by them, but if it's true I will be so disappointed that my impression of an honourable man has been destroyed! Surely not!

 

Lars Lagerbäck. If he can get Ísland almost to HM2014 he could get Watford to the Premier League.

 

What a shame. A good man but I guess he just couldn't see a way out. Good luck GFZ. Trouble is, I think we're looking to next season already now, suppose the new man has got half a season head start though.

 

I agree Vic. The boo boys were a very small minority. Given his reaction after Saturday's game, I get the impression that he felt that he had reached the end if the road and that there was nothing else he could do to turn things around.

 

Could be one of your old boys may become available! Would you want him back?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25409755